Antemoro

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history of Madagascar

...and 1513. Within one or two generations the descendants of this group had intermarried and merged with the local
tompontany to form another group known as the
Antemoro. By the 1630s the
Antemoro had formed a theocratic state, which was the only state in Madagascar at the time to possess written texts. Using the Arabic alphabet, the texts were written in...